Saturday, November 04, 2006



The original percentage agreement is a piece of scrap paper, Churchill’s writing and Stalin’s tick.

From Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace, pg 6

2 Comments:

Blogger Daniel Ford said...

And not worth the paper it was written on?

3:41 PM  
Blogger http://wimw-Bachmann.blogspot.com said...

It's just interesting how 'world-politics' is done. We discuss the content of such a paper for hours,always with a tendency of superimposing our knowledge in hindsight on the interpretation, but the original source appears to have been a sudden idea of Churchill.

8:05 AM  

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